From Concepts to Actual Causes: Toward Closing the Concept-Malfunction Gap in Robot Foundation Models
From Concepts to Actual Causes: Toward Closing the Concept-Malfunction Gap in Robot Foundation Models
This position paper addresses the concept-malfunction gap in robot foundation models by formalizing fault isolation within the framework of actual causality. The authors identify shortcomings in current mechanistic interpretability approaches, which often assume fixed contingencies and only read out immediate effects, potentially obscuring actual causes of failures. Through a toy example, they demonstrate how these limitations can lead to conflicting verdicts. Finally, the paper outlines four open research tasks aimed at closing this gap.
The paper proposes a formal framework for fault isolation in robot foundation models using actual causality to address limitations in current mechanistic interpretability approaches that rely on fixed contingencies and immediate effects.
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